​Ujo Music is a cryptocurrency platform founded by Jesse Grushack that lets artists create, publish, license and distribute music and get compensated for it under the Ethereum network. The platform features decentralized file storage, constellate for metadata, persistent identity, and automatic royalty payments. ​

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​Ujo Music began as a project within a startup incubator focused on building projects around the Ethereum blockchain called ConsenSys. The first Ujo Music prototype was built to be used by Imogen heap, a famous British singer/songwriter. The Ujo Music platform was used to license Heap's music under different terms such as permanent download, stream, stems (songs for remixing), and sync rights (for advertising purposes). ​

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Alexander Attar

Platform Lead

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Andre Anjos

Artist In Residence

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Breana Knight

Technical Community Manager

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Jack Spallone

Product Lead

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Jesse Grushack

Co-Founder

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Jon Shwartz

Software Engineer

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Joseph Lubin

Advisor

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Kyle Burke

Application Lead

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Mike Kriak

Media Circle Global Lead

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Ming Fang

DevOps and Infrastructure

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Natalia Romiszewski

Business Development

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Nihar Dalal

Blockchain Engineer

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Simon De la Rouviere

Ethereum Lead

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Thomas O'Brian

Software Engineer

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Vlad Todirut

UX/UI Lead

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Further reading

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Ujo Music on blockchain: "It's such an uphill battle with existing companies"